7 Tips For Hiring a Professional Website Designer

When you start a business,there are few things that you need in the beginning phases. One of these things is the help of a web site designer, who can design a website for your business. However, you cannot just hire a website designer, there are few things that need to be checked when you hire a designer for this kind of job. Now a days, many freelancing websites have started operating where people can just go and get a freelancer for their respective jobs. In addition, many freelancers are available for the job who often offer minimal price.

But to minimize the risk of losing money on a bad service, we at Blue way design have formulated some points that can help you to choose the right kind of designer for a website design job.

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Places to visit:

Freelance websites

Jobs websites

1.       An effective CV:

It is very important to check a website designer’s profile on freelancing website before you hire him. A profile or the online CV provides a good idea about the qualifications of the website designer. His qualification and degrees can be checked through his CV, however they cannot be verified. But the CV gives a pretty good idea about the caliber of the website designer and how much detailed project he can handle.

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2.       Availability at times needed

When you assign a job to a website designer, it’s pretty obvious that you will expect a report of update about the website on a daily basis. However, sometimes it happens that the freelance website designers are not available all the time. Therefore, it’s better to check or ask him if needed to tell about a contact procedure by which he can be contacted if needed.

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3.       Reputation in the field:

It’s simple, when you hire someone, you invest your time and money in him. In addition, you expect that the person you hire will get the job done. Sometimes you have jobs that are more technical while other times it’s easy on the employee. That is why it is important that you hire the right kind of website designer, who has a good reputation in the field. You can also check his reputation through different websites like linked in… and can find out by contacting his other clients on the freelancing website. To check the clients, simply visit the account page of the freelancer and check his completed projects or read his testimonials.

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4.       Behavior with clients:

You are known in the world how you behave with people. This sentence also implies in the marketing world. Behavior plays a very important role in selection and rejection of a person for a job. You can check the behavior of a person in the first go that is why it is said first impression is the last impression.

To check if the behavior of website designer is good, you can check his comments for his previous clients. In addition, we will recommend to also check his proposal posting style. Because these things show that, a freelancer actually cares for his job.

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5.       Previous jobs done:

Previous jobs of a website designer can tell a lot about him. If you have not visited a freelancing website until now we will recommend you to start visiting some websites to get an idea about hiring a freelancer for your work.

You will also find out the previous jobs of a freelancer in his profile section. If he has dome some complex designing jobs than he is good for you other wise you can directly talk to him face to face and decide about hiring him or not.

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6.       Success rate:

Many freelancers have success rate placed within their account on jobs websites and freelancing websites. Some of the freelancers are even featured on different freelancing websites. These freelancers are a good choice, but in our opinion, you will be paying more than the actual work if you hire them. The best thing is to look for yourself, and decide who has the highest success rate. Yes, you might have to spend some time on these websites but in the end, they will be worth it.

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7.       A back up plan:

Last but not the least, not every time you hire a freelancer for your job will end well. There are many cases in which freelancers charge the money and don’t do the job properly and in other cases freelancers file a dispute and your money hangs in your elance account.

We consider it as our duty to aware you about all the things that can happen when you select someone for a job.

And the best way to cope up with these situations is to keep a backup plan for the worst cases.

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Final Advice:

Hiring the right kind of people for a job is an art, and not everyone is master of that art. In addition, if everyone would have been a master we would not be having a human resource department in different companies.

The best way to learn these skills is by your own experience. Our advice might not help you properly, but these are some of the fundamentals and if you keep them in mind when hiring a web designer, you will surely get success, if God wills it.